New Michael Morley and Handful of Dust 2xLPs available February 22 on
Thin Wrist:
Michael Morley - Heavens Idleness Awaits
Deluxe Gatefold 2LP & Download
Michael Morley has long been acclaimed for his electric guitar and electronic forays in New Zealand’s legendary The Dead C and Gate. On Heavens Idleness Awaits he strips his music to its most elemental state. Recorded at home and using only a single tracked acoustic guitar, Morley creates an intimate and intensely meditative work. Over four side-long tracks, he weaves hypnotic melodic figures that slowly unfurl to reveal a minimalist masterwork and one of his most powerful statements to date.
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A Handful of Dust - Dragging Her Wings of Rusty Knives: Selected Recordings 1994-2016
Deluxe 2LP & Download
A Handful of Dust was founded over three decades ago by two giants of the New Zealand underground, Bruce Russell (The Dead C) and Alastair Galbraith. Declaring theirraison d’être in the now infamous Free Noise Manifesto the group has advanced a radical aesthetic; Rejecting any notion of structure or comfort they’ve ground music toit’s sub-elemental parts. A scraping and howling electricity, spontaneous, unrestrained, physical:
i) Being beyond “music,” it is noise.
ii) Being beyond “rules,” it is free.
Includes expanded and unreleased works spanning the group’s history including their first studio recordings since 1995 and new writings, a late coda to The Journal of Vain Erudition, Logopandocy.
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